fix(ack-id)!: key the Zod A2A schemas on kind, not type

[crazywriter1]

Problem

@agentcommercekit/ack-id/a2a/schemas/zod still describes the pre-0.3 A2A shape. Parts are discriminated on type, and messageSchema requires neither kind: "message" nor messageId. The Valibot schemas in the same directory moved to the @a2a-js/sdk shape and the Zod ones were left behind.

The two entry points therefore disagree about the same message, in both directions:

real handshake message -> valibot: true  | zod: false
pre-0.3 `type` shape   -> valibot: false | zod: true

The first row is a message built by this package's own createA2AHandshakeMessage, so anyone validating with the Zod export rejects traffic the library itself produces. The second row is the mirror image: a message shaped to satisfy the Zod schemas is rejected at verification time by verifyA2AHandshakeMessage, which parses with Valibot.

git log shows the drift is one-sided rather than deliberate: schemas/valibot.ts picked up the kind shape in "Update A2A demo to use official @a2a-js/sdk package" (#22); schemas/zod.ts has not been touched by that migration, only by the zod v4 move in #116. The root AGENTS.md describes these two files under "Dual Validation Schemas" as two export paths onto the same schemas, so they are meant to stay equivalent.

Fix

The Zod schemas now mirror the Valibot ones. partSchema discriminates on kind, messageSchema requires kind: "message" and messageId and accepts taskId, contextId, extensions, and referenceTaskIds, and fileContentSchema is replaced by fileWithBytesSchema and fileWithUriSchema with a file part accepting either — matching the Valibot exports.

The new schemas.test.ts runs one table of cases against both schema families, following the pattern already used in packages/caip/src/schemas/schemas.test.ts, so a future change to one file without the other fails the suite.

This is breaking for anyone importing the Zod export: messages keyed on type no longer validate, and fileContentSchema is gone. Both were already out of step with what the package produces and verifies.

Testing

pnpm check passes.

AI usage

Cursor (Claude Opus 5) did the work: it found the mismatch while scanning the
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the tests, and the changeset. I reviewed the diff before opening this.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Updated A2A message validation to require message identifiers and support task, context, extension, and reference-task details.
  • Added support for file content provided as bytes or URI references.
  • Standardized message and part kind indicators for improved interoperability.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented outdated message and part formats from being accepted.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for valid handshakes, text messages, file parts, and invalid legacy formats.

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The PR aligns Zod A2A schemas with the updated message shape. It changes part discriminators to kind, adds required message metadata, supports expanded fields and file variants, and adds validation tests for both schema implementations.

Changes

A2A schema alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update A2A schema contracts packages/ack-id/src/a2a/schemas/zod.ts, .changeset/a2a-zod-schema-kind.md	Zod parts now use kind discriminators. File content supports byte- and URI-based variants. Messages require kind and messageId and accept additional task, context, extension, and reference-task fields.
Validate both schema implementations packages/ack-id/src/a2a/schemas/schemas.test.ts	Parameterized tests validate handshakes, text messages, and file messages against Valibot and Zod schemas. Tests reject legacy type keys and messages without required metadata.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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The PR aligns Zod validation with the package’s current A2A message shape, but file parts still accept an object with neither bytes nor a URI, allowing malformed payloads through that validation path; the change is otherwise localized and mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

Possibly related PRs

• agentcommercekit/ack#69: Adds tests and fixtures that exercise the A2A message schemas.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/ack-id/src/a2a/schemas/schemas.test.ts`:
- Around line 38-49: Add test coverage alongside the existing “accepts a file
part” case for both file schema branches: verify accepts returns true for a file
containing bytes and false for a file object with neither uri nor bytes, while
preserving the existing URI acceptance test.

In `@packages/ack-id/src/a2a/schemas/zod.ts`:
- Around line 25-41: Update fileWithBytesSchema to require bytes and remove uri,
and update fileWithUriSchema to require uri, so filePartSchema rejects empty or
ambiguous file objects while preserving their respective optional metadata
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[crazywriter1]

CodeRabbit is right about the contract: in @a2a-js/sdk 0.3.13 FileWithBytes requires bytes and carries no uri, and FileWithUri requires uri, so file: {} shouldn't validate.

The catch is that the same looseness already sits in schemas/valibot.ts, which has the optional bytes and the same stray uri on the bytes variant, and that is the file verifyA2ASignedMessage parses with at runtime. Tightening only the Zod side here would put the two schemas back out of sync, which is what this PR is trying to fix, and Zod would start rejecting messages the runtime path still accepts.

I'd rather not pick the scope on my own. I can keep this one as a pure parity fix and open a separate PR that moves both files to the SDK contract, or fold that tightening in here. The second changes runtime validation behaviour, so it felt like your call. Happy to push either way. @venables